Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 639 470 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.85% 14.04% 9.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.74% 52.93% 41.89%
Number of salaries quoted 454 359 283
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £73,600 £77,650
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,367 888 986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.80% 26.52% 22.37%
Number of salaries quoted 964 643 590
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,700
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £54,892
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -18.02% +9.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,169 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% -7.69% +0.78%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +1 204 £60,000 +9.09% 116
Essex -2 145 £40,000 - 67
Cambridgeshire -17 131 £55,000 +57.14% 115
Suffolk +28 74 £39,875 -20.25% 32
Norfolk -2 57 £55,000 +10.00% 36
Bedfordshire -16 27 £38,250 +12.50% 34
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 109 (17.06%) SharePoint
2 54 (8.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.72%) WordPress
4 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.47%) IIS
4 3 (0.47%) SAS
5 2 (0.31%) Confluence
5 2 (0.31%) Luigi
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 41 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.31%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 206 (32.24%) Microsoft 365
2 123 (19.25%) Entra ID
3 85 (13.30%) Power Platform
4 80 (12.52%) Azure AI
5 74 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (10.95%) AWS
7 66 (10.33%) OneDrive
8 33 (5.16%) PowerApps
9 32 (5.01%) Power Automate
10 27 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (3.91%) GitHub
12 24 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (3.13%) GCP
15 17 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (2.66%) SaaS
16 16 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (2.19%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.89%) Firewall
2 68 (10.64%) DNS
3 53 (8.29%) DHCP
4 52 (8.14%) VPN
5 38 (5.95%) TCP/IP
6 18 (2.82%) Wireless
7 17 (2.66%) MQTT
8 12 (1.88%) VLAN
9 11 (1.72%) Internet
9 11 (1.72%) Network Security
9 11 (1.72%) VoIP
9 11 (1.72%) WAN
10 10 (1.56%) LAN
11 8 (1.25%) PBX
12 6 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.63%) DMZ
13 4 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
14 3 (0.47%) Broadband
15 2 (0.31%) SSL
15 2 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (15.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 64 (10.02%) Power BI
3 56 (8.76%) MongoDB
4 29 (4.54%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.91%) Tableau
6 23 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.63%) MySQL
11 3 (0.47%) Metadata
11 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.31%) Big Data
12 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.16%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (3.44%) Git
2 11 (1.72%) JIRA
3 5 (0.78%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.63%) Selenium
5 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.47%) git-flow
5 3 (0.47%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.31%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.16%) ERwin
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) JMeter
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.16%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 292 (45.70%) Social Skills
2 60 (9.39%) Finance
3 25 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (2.19%) Legal
5 13 (2.03%) Marketing
5 13 (2.03%) Retail
6 12 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (1.88%) Law
7 11 (1.72%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.41%) Games
10 6 (0.94%) Advertising
11 5 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.63%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.47%) Aviation
13 3 (0.47%) Banking
14 2 (0.31%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 149 (23.32%) Developer
2 112 (17.53%) IT Support
3 92 (14.40%) Analyst
4 82 (12.83%) .NET Developer
5 79 (12.36%) Support Engineer
6 77 (12.05%) IT Engineer
7 67 (10.49%) Senior
8 65 (10.17%) IT Support Engineer
9 58 (9.08%) Junior
10 53 (8.29%) Junior Analyst
11 33 (5.16%) Lead
12 32 (5.01%) Network Engineer
13 31 (4.85%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (4.69%) Security Analyst
15 28 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (4.38%) Consultant
15 28 (4.38%) Graduate
16 26 (4.07%) Data Analyst
17 25 (3.91%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (18.47%) .NET
2 95 (14.87%) .NET Core
3 78 (12.21%) ASP.NET
4 77 (12.05%) ASP.NET Core
5 58 (9.08%) CSS
5 58 (9.08%) RESTful
6 53 (8.29%) HTML
7 35 (5.48%) Entity Framework
8 34 (5.32%) React
9 30 (4.69%) ML.NET
10 28 (4.38%) Blazor
10 28 (4.38%) Node.js
11 24 (3.76%) Terraform
12 22 (3.44%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.29%) ASP.NET Web API
14 20 (3.13%) Vue
15 19 (2.97%) FastAPI
15 19 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
16 18 (2.82%) Kafka
16 18 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.42%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.26%) Driving Licence
3 31 (4.85%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.76%) Cyberattack
5 15 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.88%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.10%) CCTV
11 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.10%) iPhone
11 7 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.94%) Digital TV
12 6 (0.94%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.94%) PKI
12 6 (0.94%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 157 (24.57%) Windows
2 89 (13.93%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.50%) Linux
4 14 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (2.03%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.72%) Android
8 10 (1.56%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.31%) Unix
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (21.13%) AI
2 126 (19.72%) Cybersecurity
3 121 (18.94%) Agile
4 97 (15.18%) DevOps
5 95 (14.87%) Mentoring
6 89 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 77 (12.05%) CI/CD
8 77 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
10 54 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 52 (8.14%) Machine Learning
12 43 (6.73%) Roadmaps
13 41 (6.42%) Cloud Security
14 40 (6.26%) Service Delivery
15 39 (6.10%) Computer Science
16 38 (5.95%) Containerisation
16 38 (5.95%) Migration
17 36 (5.63%) ITIL
18 35 (5.48%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 193 (30.20%) SQL
2 144 (22.54%) C#
3 103 (16.12%) Python
4 58 (9.08%) PowerShell
5 55 (8.61%) JavaScript
6 40 (6.26%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.97%) PHP
8 14 (2.19%) C++
9 10 (1.56%) Java
10 9 (1.41%) Bicep
11 8 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.10%) Rust
13 4 (0.63%) Bash
13 4 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.47%) Ruby
14 3 (0.47%) Scala
15 2 (0.31%) Go
16 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (23.00%) Azure Certification
2 78 (12.21%) Degree
3 38 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (4.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 30 (4.69%) CCNA
6 28 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
8 24 (3.76%) CEH
8 24 (3.76%) CompTIA CySA+
9 14 (2.19%) Security Cleared
10 8 (1.25%) CCNP
10 8 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.25%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.94%) CISSP
12 5 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.47%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.47%) CCSK
13 3 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.69%) QA
2 26 (4.07%) SLA
3 24 (3.76%) GDPR
4 22 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.82%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.19%) NIST
7 13 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.25%) NCSC
9 7 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.94%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.78%) GRC
11 5 (0.78%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.63%) PMO
13 3 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.16%) HL7
14 1 (0.16%) IFRS
14 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 143 (22.38%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.26%) Docker
3 38 (5.95%) Hyper-V
4 31 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.10%) SCCM
4 5 (0.78%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 447 (69.95%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.27%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.67%) Cisco
4 36 (5.63%) VMware
5 26 (4.07%) Apple
6 21 (3.29%) Google
7 14 (2.19%) Adobe
8 13 (2.03%) Facebook
8 13 (2.03%) Meraki
9 10 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.56%) Ubiquiti
9 10 (1.56%) Veeam
10 7 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.10%) SonicWALL
11 6 (0.94%) Databricks
12 5 (0.78%) Sony
12 5 (0.78%) Yahoo!
13 4 (0.63%) Citrix
13 4 (0.63%) SAP
13 4 (0.63%) Sophos